Frank Lampard

[Spike 12,049]

NYC didn't approach him, they were only a concept then.. Man-City did, and I refuse to believe Lampard is that naive. He will have known exactly what was going on, and how things would be 'perceived'.

NYC weren't a concept they were a real club that was being prepared for the next season. Where is the naivety in what I posted? He left, he was given a good offer that let him keep playing in England.

[Spike 12,049]

Jesus Christ, Term-X you paint Lamps as a guy that had been planning and scheming this for half of his life. It is quite simply just how things turned out, he left and was given a chance to keep playing in England while then being able to comfortably move to the States afterwards.

[Special Juan 27,106]

I blame that fucking Christine Bleakley.....now she is a bitch her.

[Term-X 7,891]

NYC weren't a concept they were a real club that was being prepared for the next season. Where is the naivety in what I posted? He left, he was given a good offer that let him keep playing in England.

It's the City group he was dealing with though, as these reports show. Based on that post I quoted you painted Lampard to be naive, as if he wasn't fully aware of how it would benefit him to disguise the fact he was signing 'directly' to our only title rivals.

[Term-X 7,891]

The lies, the quotes.. they all contradict each other, it's all been unravelled.

[Spike 12,049]

It's the City group he was dealing with though, as these reports show. Based on that post I quoted you painted Lampard to be naive, as if he wasn't fully aware of how it would benefit him to disguise the fact he was signing 'directly' to our only title rivals.

I never painted Lampard out as being naive. I'm saying that he didn't care in the slightest.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

This conspiracy theory.

I think Lamps wanted to move to the States, NYC approached him and told him that he can join the club and keep playing in England for ManCity before the next season starts. He liked the idea of playing football and joined. MCFC gave him until January, he impressed and they offered an extension. He loves playing football and he will never, ever get to play in the EPL again, he is 36, you gotta take these oppurtunities. It's wasn't nice to us, but he is his own man before anything else.

Hey, hey, hey. No conniving, no scheming, it is just how thing turned out.

Plenty of loopholes in that:

1. If he was not scheming, he would have actually signed for NYFC and then when the opportunity came up went on loan to Man City (or god forbid to some other club outside of England if all he wanted was to stay fit).

2. If he wasn't intentionally misleading and conning NewYorkers, he and Man City would not have explicitly said on several occasions that he was on loan at City and instead would have told the truth that he had a season long contract and that he might sign a contract with NYFC once he was done playing at City.

3. He held a hugely publicized press conference to say that he not only has become a NYFC player and signed a 2 year contract, but that he was there to lead the team by example and help the entire league grow when in fact he knew that he:

a. Was aiming at not being there for half of the first season.

b. He could and still can join any other team he wants including other MLS teams or teams outside the country or even retire if he wishes because he has nothing legally biding him to NYFC.

[Fulham Broadway 16,424]

Question;

Hypothetically everyone on this thread goes to the Citeh game.

Whatchagonna do ? BOOOO him ? Cheer SUPERFRANK ! ?, Polite applause ? Or ignore the fact hes playing ??

I will applaud, and not let City fans claim one of our legends, negate 13 years of wonderful football and silverware. I also hope he either gets a niggling (nothing serious) injury before, or plays one of those anonymous stinkers he occasionally played for us.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Question;

Hypothetically everyone on this thread goes to the Citeh game.

Whatchagonna do ? BOOOO him ? Cheer SUPERFRANK ! ?, Polite applause ? Or ignore the fact hes playing ??

I will applaud, and not let City fans claim one of our legends, negate 13 years of wonderful football and silverware. I also hope he either gets a niggling (nothing serious) injury before, or plays one of those anonymous stinkers he occasionally played for us.

Polite applause if he comes on or is subbed off, but I certainly would NOT be cheering and signing the name of a City player playing against our boys.

Our away fans at the Ettihad actually played a role in my opinion in taking some of the momentum out of the team that was on the front foot before Frank came out and the cheering his name begun and gave him the confidence and motivation to score.

[Special Juan 27,106]

As it stands, and if I was in our stands I wouldn't be singing his name. No boos, no jeering him just nothing........

Let him come and clap us, let him applaud us as fans and let him love us. Show your hand Frank, we loved you.......now it's over to you!!

[Daniel1980 1,425]

Polite applause if he comes on or is subbed off, but I certainly would NOT be cheering and signing the name of a City player playing against our boys.

Our away fans at the Ettihad actually played a role in my opinion in taking some of the momentum out of the team that was on the front foot before Frank came out and the cheering his name begun and gave him the confidence and motivation to score.

This. He's a City player. We should cheer our own players. If was fucking embarrassing enough how instead of cheering our own players, our away fans cheered Frank. IMO, it threw our players off and they seemed to lose their concentration when Frank came out.

[The Chels 2,502]

Our away fans at the Ettihad actually played a role in my opinion in taking some of the momentum out of the team that was on the front foot before Frank came out and the cheering his name begun and gave him the confidence and motivation to score.

This. He's a City player. We should cheer our own players. If was fucking embarrassing enough how instead of cheering our own players, our away fans cheered Frank. IMO, it threw our players off and they seemed to lose their concentration when Frank came out.

I completely agree that we shouldn't be cheering for the opposition but I don't think the Lampard chanting did much and I reckon we'd have conceded anyway. The truth is that we've lost 7 points (and counting) from winning positions in the league this season - all coming in big away games.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Even more I want us to win title now. Seeing the face of Lamps after that would be satisfying. I hope he realizes he is a dick who destroyed his legacy here for what he thought would bring him another trophy with City.

[tiby2979 175]

NYC weren't a concept they were a real club that was being prepared for the next season. Where is the naivety in what I posted? He left, he was given a good offer that let him keep playing in England.

Frank said he has been other opportunities to play in England and that he had rejected by the NYCity. So that contradicts the excuse that his priority was to stay in England.

[Atlas Lion 1,223]

What a ridiculous set of posts you've made during your time in this thread. Stick your head in the sand, avoid discussing what has happened and just state nobody will care in the future?, smfh.. This exact situation has never happened before with Chelsea fans, so it's an impossible thing to say.

Tone it down a notch keyboard warrior. Every Chelsea fan in existence should have mixed feelings and opinions on this matter. He was a professional and wanted to play with us yet we didn't negotiate any deal furthering his contract as we didn't need his services (considering he would of been a hell of a lot more useful than Mikel) He had an offer to play top level football and as a professional he accepted it.

I am waiting for more evidence to unravel rather than picking out and creating knee jerk assumptions whilst lashing on media and conspiracy approaches that bare no true evidence on what really is happening behind closed doors.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Question;

Hypothetically everyone on this thread goes to the Citeh game.

Whatchagonna do ? BOOOO him ? Cheer SUPERFRANK ! ?, Polite applause ? Or ignore the fact hes playing ??

I will applaud, and not let City fans claim one of our legends, negate 13 years of wonderful football and silverware. I also hope he either gets a niggling (nothing serious) injury before, or plays one of those anonymous stinkers he occasionally played for us.

Politely applaud him before kick-off whilst he's warming up. Acknowledge what he's done for the club.

Then just ignore him.

[pHaRaOn 2,131]

Frank Lampard has something to say. Rather a lot to say, in fact. For a start, he wants to say that his heart will always be with Chelsea, that he is determined to make up for lost time when he finally joins New York City in July but that, until then, he will be fiercely committed to Manchester City.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/premierleague/article4319252.ece

Awwwww, I almost shed a tear.

[tiby2979 175]

I am waiting for more evidence to unravel rather than picking out and creating knee jerk assumptions whilst lashing on media and conspiracy approaches that bare no true evidence on what really is happening behind closed doors.

Pellegrini en december: "It's not so easy because Frank is a New York City player. He is only on loan until December 31, so we must respect the other people."

Now: Manchester City have admitted making mistakes regarding Frank Lampard’s status, with the club moving to clarify he never signed a two-year deal with New York City FC and so the midfielder was never on loan from the MLS franchise. A clarification issued on Friday by the club said: “The statement on the NYCFC website in July saying Lampard’s two-year contract took effect from Aug 1, 2014 was a mistake. [The] initial statement on City’s website that it was a loan was also an error.”

This is evidence that inicially they lied for some unknown reason.